Most municipal employees would be enrolled in a new, cost-saving health benefit plan city officials say would allow them to see more doctors, specialists and other clinicians than their current plans do, Mayor Eric Adams and Labor Commissioner Renee Campion announced Monday.
The proposed plan, which would be jointly administered by the insurance companies EmblemHealth and UnitedHealthcare, would cover about 750,000 employees, pre-Medicare retirees and their dependents, or 75 percent of the city’s workforce and their families, the mayor’s office said in a release.
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